State v. Raymond

Decided October 15, 1855

Supreme Court of Connecticut · decided 1855-10-15

This was a complaint preferred, by a grandjuror of the town of Darien, to a justice of the peace, against Stephen Raymond, for keeping spirituous and intoxicatingliquors, with intent to sell the same, in violation of the statute passed in 1854, entitled “An act for the suppression of intemperance.’’ A trial was had before the justice, and the defendant was found guilty.

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Decided 1855-10-15

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Stores, J.

¶1It is too clear to admit of argument, that, in order to show that the defendant kept the liquor, in question on the trial, in his store, for the purpose of sale, evidence was admissible to prove that he had sold to Taylor other liquor of the same kind in that store ; and the defendant could not, in this ease, have been convicted for keeping the liquor so sold to Taylor, and for which sale he had been prosecuted, since the judge below carefully protected him against such conviction, by informing the jury that evidence of that sale was admissible, not for the purpose of convicting the defendant of keeping that liquor for sale, but only for the purpose of showing the intent with which he kept the liquor, for the keeping of which he was prosecuted in this case.

¶2A new trial is not advised.

¶3In this opinion the other judges, Waite and Hinman, concurred.

¶4A new trial not granted.